All work and no play?
All work and no play?
Even working K9s need to let off some steam in-between training sessions with the Wildlife Futures Program team!
#PennVet #workingdog #pennvetworkingdogcenter #wildlifefutures
The view you get when you approach the fence around feeding time!
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Happy Father's Day
Father’s Day is tomorrow! A perfect day to celebrate all the fathers and father figures in our lives! (the four-footed as well as human)
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New Bolton Center Ponies Find a New Friend
The ponies at New Bolton Center made a new friend! We are still unsure if the turtle is just as enthusiastic about his new companions...
#PennVet #NewBoltonCenter
Morgan Agnew, V'13 | Bellwether
In what is arguably the world’s best job, Dr. Morgan Agnew, V’13, spends her days with puppies or planning for their arrival.
Agnew is a board-certified theriogenologist – a specialist in veterinary reproduction -- who runs Agnew Veterinary Reproductive Services (AVRS) in partnership with Philadelphia Animal Hospital. At AVRS, Agnew assists expecting dog mothers throughout the entire pregnancy process from examining for fertility, whelping, and examining litters.
“Some of my best clients are breeding Labrador Retrievers or Golden Retrievers for services dogs and working dogs. To know where those puppies are going, and to know that I helped to make it happen, is really cool.”
Read more about Agnew’s practice and her journey after graduating from Penn Vet here: https://bit.ly/388mD2g
#PennVet #Bellwether
Happy Mother's Day
Happy Mother’s Day! Today we celebrate all the mothers and mother figures in our lives.
#PennVet #Mothersday
In the Office with Dr. Katrin Hinrichs
Plants, artwork, and many, many awards are among the items you can find in Dr. Katrin Hinrichs’s office.
Chair of the Department of Clinical Studies at New Bolton Center and Professor of Equine Medicine, Hinrichs is an international leader and pioneer in equine reproductive health.
Hinrichs’s arrival to Penn Vet (during the pandemic) was a homecoming! She began her career just down the road at New Bolton Center’s Hofmann Center for Animal Reproduction.
Get to know our gracious Dr. Hinrichs here https://bit.ly/3vd3DbF
#PennVet #Bellwether #EquineVeterinarian #horsehealth #equinehealth
Coming Soon: Bellwether Spring/Summer 2022
Trotting your way soon, our latest edition of #PennVet’s Bellwether magazine! We’ll be highlighting pediatric and reproductive veterinary medicine - focusing on what everyone loves – babies!
This issue features remarkable stories of little fighters who came to Penn Vet in critical conditions, and their journey back to health. We catch up with Theriogenologist Morgan Agnew, V’13, and step into the office of Dr. Katrin Hinrichs, Professor and Chair of Clinical Studies at Penn Vet New Bolton Center.
And there’s more! Read it online at: https://bit.ly/3EdCEQg
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Penn Vet Holiday Message - 2021
To our students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, clients, and friends, thank you for your unwavering dedication to – and support of – Penn Vet’s mission this past year.
Wherever you may be this holiday season, we wish you a safe, healthy, and happy new year.
Supporting a Pipeline of Infectious Disease Experts
Martin Winter, G’76, W’76, believes the University of Pennsylvania is positioned to lead “just about every intersection of research and practice there is.”
As a philanthropist and vice chair of Penn Vet’s Board of Advisors, Winter has long followed and supported the cancer research of Dr. Nicola Mason, The Paul A. James and Charles A. Gilmore Endowed Chair Professorship within the Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, and Ellen Puré, PhD, Director, Penn Vet Cancer Center, both of whom collaborate closely with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
But earlier this fall, intrigued by the work happening across the University in infectious disease, he and his wife established The Martin E. Winter and Pamela Winter Infectious Disease Fellowship Fund to support the School’s new Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD).
Learn more in the latest issue of #Bellwether: https://bit.ly/31YamdY
In the Office with Dr. Michael Povelones
As a vector for diseases like malaria, which kills nearly one child every minute, #mosquitoes are more than backyard nuisances, especially in developing countries.
Understanding and subverting the insect’s role as a host for animal and human disease is the life’s work of Dr. Michael Povelones, assistant professor of Pathobiology.
While Povelones’s lab on Penn Vet’s Philadelphia campus studies “the most species-rich group of animals on the planet,” his office is also filled with the dangerous insect...or at least the art and object kind.
Get to know Dr. Povelones more in the latest edition of Penn Vet's #Bellwether magazine: https://bit.ly/31PYRFr
#PennVet #InfectiousDisease #Research
Fighting on the Front Lines of Infectious Disease
Colonel Eric Lombardini, C’93, G’01, V’01, has lived or worked in 70 countries, on all continents except Antarctica, as a veterinary corps officer rising through the ranks of the U.S. Army.
Board certified in veterinary pathology and veterinary preventive medicine, Lombardini now is stationed in Bangkok, Thailand, where he serves as director of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), the Department of Defense’s largest medical research institute outside of the U.S.
But, serving on the front lines of infectious disease wasn’t exactly the path Lombardini set on as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania studying diplomatic history, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East.
Get the full story on his journey in the latest issue of Bellwether: https://www.vet.upenn.edu/about/news-room/news-stories/news-story-detail/fighting-on-the-front-lines-of-infectious-disease
#Bellwether #PennVetAlumni #InfectiousDisease #PennAlumni
A Hub for Zoonotic Disease Research
More than three-quarters of emerging #infectious #diseases that affect humans come from animals. In just the last two decades, outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, swine influenza, avian influenza, and West Nile virus — among others — have occurred around the world, while other established infections, such as malaria and dengue, continue to be a global concern.
#PennVet's recently launched Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD) seeks to address precisely these types of animal- and human-health challenges by bringing together world-class expertise in infectious diseases, immunology, agriculture, veterinary medicine, and molecular diagnostics.
Get the full story in the latest issue of Bellwether, now online: www.vet.upenn.edu/bellwether-magazine
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Introducing IIZD
#ICYMI: Penn Vet launched its brand-new Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD), dedicated to confronting dangerous emerging and re-emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases.
With 75% of all newly emerging infectious diseases being #zoonotic, the Institute will provide critical resources and technologies galvanizing scientists to mitigate disease, develop novel therapeutics, and transform #publichealth.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Ecr4n8
#OneHealth #IIZD #PennVet #ZoonoticDisease #InfectiousDisease University of Pennsylvania
Introducing IIZD!
With 75% of all newly emerging infectious diseases being zoonotic, there is an alarming and urgent need for early detection and prevention of these threats.
Today, Penn Vet is thrilled to announce the launch of its brand-new Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases (IIZD) dedicated to confronting these dangerous emerging and re-emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases.
Powered by Penn Vet’s extensive bench – including 30 Penn Vet faculty, 110 research investigators, and leading faculty from across the University of Pennsylvania – the Institute will provide critical resources and technologies galvanizing scientists to mitigate disease, develop novel therapeutics, and truly transform public health for the communities and economies that we serve.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Ecr4n8
#OneHealth #IIZD #PennVet #ZoonoticDisease #InfectiousDisease
To our veterinary technicians and nurses: THANK YOU.
It's not easy being a veterinary nurse, technician, or patient care tech.
It takes rigorous training, and long hours of dedicated care where attention to detail can only be surpassed by compassion, love, and perseverance.
This #VetTechAppreciationWeek, we pause to give thanks to the elite team of accomplished, expert vet tech and nursing professionals who are integral to our delivery of care at both our large and small hospitals.
We are so grateful for everything you do, and for your unending dedication to each and every patient that walks through our doors.
From all of us at Penn Vet: THANK YOU.
Learn more: www.vet.upenn.edu/vet-techs-nbc
Join us for Climate Week at Penn!
***Last call for registration!***
How are increasing temperatures and thriving mosquito populations creating more dangerous disease?
What makes mosquitoes such ideal harbors for pathogens and infectious disease? What is the risk to wildlife? And, what is the risk to human health?
Join us and a panel leading of Penn Vet experts TODAY at 4pm (EST) to get answers to these questions and more as part of #ClimateWeekatPenn.
This exclusive virtual event is free to attend and open to everyone! Learn more and get registered by visiting pennvetclimateweek21.eventbrite.com.
Two Decades Since 9/11: A Tribute
Two Decades Since 9/11: A Tribute
On September 11, 2001, Cynthia Otto, professor of Working Dog Sciences and Sports Medicine, and director of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, got the call to pack her bags and report to the Philadelphia Fire Academy as part of the PA Task Force One.
She would go on to spend 10 days at Ground Zero taking care of the dogs that were working there – an indelible, deeply personal experience that served as the guidepost and inspiration for the Working Dog Center that we have today.
This video, featuring the brave handlers and Search and Rescue working dogs deployed to both Ground Zero and the Pentagon, is dedicated to all the canines who served our country in the aftermath of September 11th, and to all dogs who continue to bring humans hope in difficult times.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3lbrylA
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#September11 #911Anniversary #PennVet #WorkingDogCenter #WorkingDogs #Tribute
Register Today for the 2021 Penn Annual Conference
September is here! You know what that means?
The 2021 Penn Annual Conference is just around the corner! Join us on September 22 and 23 for live an *all virtual* CE event with customizable tracks featuring the latest and greatest in Companion Animal Medicine, Equine Medicine, Food Animal Medicine, and Veterinary Nursing.
Offering both live, recorded, and asynchronous sessions, this year’s virtual PAC offers more ways than ever to stay connected.
Learn more and register online today by visiting www.vet.upenn.edu/PAC.
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#lifelonglearning #continuingeducation #veterinarymedicine #PAC2021 #PennVet #veterinarians #equinevet #largeanimalvet #veterinarynursing
Join us for Climate Week at Penn!
Climate change is now, and it’s here.
Sustained rain events and searing hot temperatures are accelerating thriving mosquito populations. More mosquitoes, more disease.
But how does that REALLY happen?
What makes mosquitoes such ideal harbors for pathogens and infectious disease What is the risk to wildlife? And what is the risk to human health?
Join us on Monday, September 20, 2021 for a FREE webinar and get answers to these questions and more.
Learn more and RSVP today at www.pennvetclimateweek21.eventbrite.com
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#ClimateChange #OneHealth #Veterinarians #EnvironmentalHealth #Wildlife #WildlifeHealth
In the Office: Dr. Eman Anis | Bellwether, Spring Summer '21
When #COVID19 created a global tailspin, Dr. Eman Anis, assistant professor of microbiology, was just six months into her appointment here at Penn Vet.
Anis has studied coronaviruses for more than a decade, but the imminent health implications of SARS-CoV-2 – for both humans and animals – catapulted her work into overdrive.
Wasting no time, even amid the throes of the pandemic, Anis and her team developed a rapid diagnostic test that would later become a critical tool in preventing an additional zoonotic spillover.
We invite you to get to know Dr. Anis, who also serves as the section head of the Microbiology Lab at the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System (PADLS), in our latest issue of #Bellwether: https://bit.ly/3xJxze8
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Giving is a Marital Affair | Bellwether Spring 2021
Dr. Patricia Mapps, V’96, was an executive in the technology industry before her second career – and true calling – as a large animal veterinarian.
Knowing that following her childhood dreams would have been a different kind of challenge with student loan debt, Mapps and her husband Lorin Jeffry (“Jeff”) Randall turned to see what they could do now to help nurture the pathway for young, aspiring veterinarians trying to chase dreams of their own.
This year, the Patricia J. Mapps, V’96 and Lorin J. Randall Endowed Scholarship Fund was awarded for the first time to third-year student Katelyn Newcamp, V’22, who is pursuing one of Penn Vet’s dual degrees offered with Penn Nursing.
Get the full story in the latest issue of Bellwether: https://bit.ly/2TGJ7jo
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Penn Vet Dual Degrees: The Student Experience
Veterinarians have always played important roles in public health, human health, and welfare. Current events - including the #COVID19 pandemic; growing awareness of social, racial and economic inequity; and increased impact of climate change - have only underscored the importance of our profession helping to tackle these complex health and social challenges.
Enter Penn Vet's new dual degree programs - a VMD-Master of Social Work (VMD-MSW) with University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, and the VMD-Master of Environmental Studies (VMD-MES) with Penn Arts & Sciences - and the cohort of Penn Vet students who are already transforming the roles of veterinarians at the critical juncture of human health, environmental health, and animal health and welfare.
Learn more about their individual experiences, passions, and visions for the future of veterinary medicine in the latest issue of #Bellwether: https://bit.ly/34XBkjL
Congratulations to the Wildlife Futures Program!
The Wildlife Futures Program was recognized by the Northeast Wildlife Administrators Association for the Program’s innovative, “forward-thinking” approach to wildlife health in Pennsylvania. The program is a science-based, health partnership with the Pennsylvania Game Commission serving to strengthen the resilience of Pennsylvania’s wild birds and mammals.
A big congratulations to Penn Vet’s Drs. Julie Ellis and Lisa Murphy, co-directors of the program, as well as to our partners at the Game Commission, and to the ENTIRE Wildlife Futures team!
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3wCzpNo
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Thank You, Dr. Bourla.
Think big.
Be prepared.
Take risks.
Find your place.
It’s been a full 24 hours since Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla, DVM, PhD, imparted these inspiring sentiments to V’21 as they embark upon a new chapter in their journey as veterinarians. But we can’t stop thinking about them as they are truly guideposts to all of us here at Penn Vet and for veterinarians throughout the world.
Dr. Bourla: thank you. For your time. For your wisdom. For honoring our institution – and profession – as Penn Vet’s V’21 commencement speaker.
And, most importantly, for reminding us just how much we can do for our communities, our planet, and for each other.
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Congratulations, V'21!
Congratulations, DOCTORS! 🎉
Join us in celebrating the newest class of #PennVetAlumni: V'21! They did it!!
#PennGrad #PennVet
Dear V'21: You've Got Mail!
Dear V’21…
You’ve got mail! 📬
Signed,
Your new #PennVetAlumni family
(Want to read even more? Visit www.vet.upenn.edu/commencement-2021)
#V21 #PennVet #Commencement #Veterinarians
Join us at Keeping it Reel: Veterinarians on Film
Last call!
According to the Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings, and Series, authors Richard and Mary Armstrong note that the film industry “has portrayed veterinarians as gentle, charming animal-lovers blessed with understated strength.”
But how do these Hollywood portrayals of the profession influence the perceptions and expectations of veterinary clients?
What's real? And what's nostalgia?
Join us TODAY at 4pm for an exclusive free-to-attend virtual event as we sit down with a panel of #PennVetAlumni to hear their own personal experiences and how being a veterinarian has changed over time.
Registration is OPEN until 3:30pm (EST) - sign up to attend at https://pennvetalumniweek21.eventbrite.com
#BellwetherSessions #VirtualEvents #Veterinarians
Celebrate your Milestone Reunions virtually!
Calling all #PennVetAlumni with class years ending in 1's and 6's 👋 - we want to celebrate YOU! 🎉
Grab a drink, some snacks, and enjoy an informal catch up with your fellow VMDs (virtually) to toast to your milestone reunions. 🥂
The celebrations begin tomorrow evening at 8pm - but there's still time to register! Head over to https://bit.ly/2R5UlgD for more details and to sign up. We hope to 'see' you there!
Join us at 'Then & Now: DEI at Penn Vet'!
#PennVetAlumniWeek is almost here! Our virtual line-up of events kicks off on Tuesday, May 11 at Noon with 'Then & Now: DEI at Penn Vet.' Hosted by PAVED, #PennVet students and alumni will be sharing their unique experiences in the veterinary profession and engaging in a candid conversation on the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Penn Vet.
All #PennVetAlumni are welcome to attend our free-to-attend virtual events. For more information on the schedule of Alumni & Reunion Week events, and to RSVP, visit: https://bit.ly/2vpCfHW
We hope to 'see' you there!
